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GUNS KILL PEOPLE
Here is an idea that gets lots and lots of publicity every time there is a shooting and yet it is an idea that is based on a fundamental confusion between agent and instrument.
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FORGET DEADLINES, THEY ARE DEADLY
Many people think that to get things done, to be productive, to accomplish goals, and to achieve their highest and best, they need deadlines.
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POVERTY CREATES CRIME
In an attempt to fight crime, some have taken to the mistaken idea that the cause of crime is poverty.
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STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE AND OTHER FOOLISH ACTS
Perhaps the most subtle way that people sneak perfectionism into their lives is by giving it different names.
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JUDGING THE PAST BY TODAY Another Bad Idea
Here’s another bad political idea— judge what happened in previous times and ages by the standard and criteria of today.
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THE WISE EXECUTIVE
An analogy. Wise executives are few and far between.
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WE NEED THE “THOUGHT POLICE”
Here’s a bad idea politically.
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EXECUTIVE POWER
To speak of executive control (#54) is also to speak about executive power.
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WE NEED MORE GOVERNMENT
Here’s another bad political idea.
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WHEN THE EXECUTIVE IS FOOLISH
Currently I’m working on wisdom.
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EXECUTIVE CONTROL
One thing that everybody knows about executives is that they are in control.
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THE REFLEXIVE EXECUTIVE
To be the executive of you, of your life, you have to take charge (#52), and to do that you tap into and activate one of the executive functions that is especially designed to…
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BAD IDEA: WE NEED OPEN BORDERS
Among all of the bad ideas that are being floated today, one of the big ones is that we need open borders.
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TAKING EXECUTIVE CONTROL
Built into your brain are multiple executive functions.
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HISTORY IS FOREVER OR IS IT?
How should we think about what someone did in the past?
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ACTUALIZING THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
Given the executive functions in your brain (Neurons #48), you have both the capacity and the potential to be your own best executive making executive decisions about what to…
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A BAD IDEA: YOU ARE ONE OF A COLLECTIVE
Critical Theory and its derivative, Critical Race Theory (CRT), does not see you as an individual person.
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THE EXECUTIVE SERIES
I did not know it at the time, but when I created the Meta-States Model in 1994 and modeled self- reflexivity, the factor that makes human consciousness so special— I was…
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THE BAD IDEA OF EQUITY
In thinking about bad ideas in politics, ideas that are having a field day these days, the idea of equalizing out everything is one of the worst.
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WHEN YOUR EDUCATION IS INADEQUATE
You know your education was inadequate if you were not educated with the ability to solve problems, to think through a problem, and use critical thinking skills to figure out a…
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SHUTTING DOWN DIFFERENCES Another Really Bad Idea
Who likes disagreements?
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NEEDED: BOLD THINKERS TO CHANGE THE WORLD (#3)
Are you a bold thinker?
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THE BAD IDEA OF POST-MODERNISM
I ended the last article asserting that postmodernism is a really terrible idea.
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